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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 58 points 3 weeks ago

Yours obviously. Terrible design and awful colour choice. Not completely surprising from such a backwards country but I have to admit you raised the ugliness bar to a whole new level. Matches well with your ridiculous anthem and your stupid traditions (incest and cannibalism are still a thing I've heard).

My country on the other hand... now that's some nice flag design: good palette, great inspiration, high symbolic value. Very nice. Pairs well with our melodic anthem and our respectable traditions (like ritual 'feast of the elders' and ceremonial family acts of love)

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Basically any flag that’s just 3 colored bars. They’re so boring and there are so many that it’s hard to even differentiate them.

Flags should say something about your country.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They do, the colors usually have some meaning attached. Also, as a kid, would you rather draw Bhutan's flag or Ukraine's?

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago

I would 100% pick Bhutan's flag as a kid. Flags should be simple but come on, that dragon is awesome.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Um Dragon flag definitely! Easy to draw is not on my list of criteria.

Also, I know the colors usually have meaning, it’s just so boring.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

When i was a kid, Ukrainian flag looked much better

[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Feel like pure shit just want it back

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A cross isn't exactly that much better tbh. So you are or used to be some kind of Christian country. Great.

Believe it or not that does actually narrow it down quite a bit.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Australia & New Zealand. The two are too similar and IMO keeping the Union Jack on your flag while being an independent nation adds to the confusion. Canada had the right idea with the maple leaf.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

... And then there's Hawaii.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This.

Bloody Aussies stole out shitty design.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All the tricolor ones. At least put something there ffs, Serbia and Slovakia did and it's still not great but much better.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Mexico and Argentina, too.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Tie. Poland and Indonesia.

[–] Bademantel@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But you like Monaco, right?

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

Of course, that one's awesome!

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[–] king_comrade@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Any flag that cucks itself by having the union jack on it. Looking at you Oz/NZ... It's time to move on.

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[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

Bosnia and Herzegovina πŸ‡§πŸ‡¦ is so unbalanced it just feels wrong. At least you can't say it's boring.

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've always been annoyed at Ireland's because it replaced a much nicer flag.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Because it had boobs on them?

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Four bars is already too many, adding a big red line down the middle is not helping, and tbh if you took away the star it'd at least be symmetrical.

If your flag is gonna be busy, at least be creative and put like a dragon or something on it.

Sorry CAR.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Morocco has the worst colour scheme. Low contrast makes the star disappear when viewing from far away.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lithuania maybe. Boring Tricolor and I don't like the color combination at all.

[–] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

I like the colour combination, personally

[–] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Bangladesh is so fucking asymmetric

WHY

[–] trk@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

The Torres Straight Islands flag is pretty bad. It looks like a cats arsehole.

[–] Chick0nPlayz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Imo good contenders are Nicaragua and El Salvador for being so incredibly generic. At least other Central American countries have more unique designs.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Bosnia’s is fire wdym

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Close tie between America and UK, both horrible color choices

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The worst part of the UK flag is they didn't put a dragon on it.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well at least the Welsh kept it as their nation's flag.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dragons in old English stories too so it's not even specifically a Welsh thing. Just another reason to have one on the UK flag.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'd have to dig into the archives but all of Britain was once the Welsh, till the 'English' invaders pushed them into the pocket of land they are in now. I wonder if the Union Jack specifically left off the dragon, as to not recognize the welsh folk lore, or claim of an independent group like the rest of flags on it

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What about all the other flags that use those same colours?

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Norway just subscribed to this thread

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's a rule that countries that have been conquered by the french have to use those colours.

[–] daniel@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

Well one of them was based on the other…

But hey, don’t hate on our 400+ year old colour choice! πŸ‡³πŸ‡±

[–] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Two random ones I find quite ugly are Madagascar and Samoa.

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Brazil. Mostly because it has text. Actually, reading about the flag and its history has made me appreciate it more. FUCK! I'm changing my answer to Malaysia for copying my country's flag.

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